PixelMEDIA Inc.

Last month, our Director of Engineering landed a few Google Wave invites and shared them with the team.  When I started playing with mine, I wasn’t even interested in talking with other people: I wanted to start playing with bots.  Google Wave is a terrific environment for bots and other automated tools, and with Google, they’re easy to code and deploy.

“Bot” is a term for any piece of software that can run tasks on the Internet.  Chatbots or chatterbots can carry on simple conversations or relay information to you; spyware bots can hack into your computer and plague your hard drive.  Used properly and legally, bots are convenient and helpful devices that can look up or process information for you.  Or they can just tell bad jokes. Read More…